(b)The Board has no authority to issue a stay of any reduction in force action.

(c)The Board may delegate to a member or a panel of members the authority to act under subsection (a) of this section. A decision of a member or panel under subsection (a) is deemed to be a final decision of the Board unless the Board reconsiders the decision under subsection (d) of this section.

(d)On motion of a party or on its own initiative, the Board may reconsider a decision under subsection (a) of this section by the 30th day after the decision is made.

(e)The Board shall prescribe regulations—

(1)providing for officer and employee appeals consistent with sections
7701 and
7702 of title
5; and

In the section, the words “officer or” are added for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.

In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words “decide” and “(where appropriate)” are omitted as surplus. In clause (6), the words “relations program” are substituted for “system” for consistency. In clause (8), the words “most appropriately” are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (b), the words “delegate . . . to act” are substituted for “designate . . . to take any action which the Board is authorized to take” for consistency and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words “individual” and “reopened and” are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (c), the words “reopen and” are omitted as surplus.

In subsection (d)(1), the words “the principles of” are omitted as surplus.

References in Text

Section 312(e)(2) of the Architect of the Capitol Human Resources Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(9), was classified to section
1831(e)(2) of Title
2, The Congress, and was repealed by Pub. L. 104–1, title V, § 504(c)(1),Jan. 23, 1995, 109 Stat. 41, except as provided in section
1435 of Title
2.

General Accounting Office redesignated Government Accountability Office. See section 8 ofPub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section
702 of this title.

Application of Provisions Amended by Pub. L. 103–283

Provisions of this section amended by section 312(e) ofPub. L. 103–283to be applied and administered as if section
312(e) and the amendments made by section
312(e) had not been enacted, see section 504(c)(2) ofPub. L. 104–1, set out as a note under section
751 of this title.